By William Mackay: With both Sky Sport and HBO preferring that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) step up to the plate and finally try and avenge his 1st round knockout loss to Colombian knockout artist Breidis Prescott from 2008, Khan instead took the safer path by continuing to avoid Prescott and fight the much weaker punching Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s). You can take it whichever way you want, but it looks like Khan decided to dodge the Prescott fight for an opponent that is less of a threat to him.

Strangely enough, Khan says that he could easily beat Prescott, but for some reason Khan doesn’t want to put that belief into practice. Another thing that doesn’t make sense is that the Prescott rematch would clearly drum up more interest than a fight against the little known McCloskey, meaning more money for Khan in terms of pay-per-view sales in the UK. And yet Khan still decided to take the McCloskey fight instead of the tempting bigger money against Prescott.

In an article by Dan Rafael at ESPN, he points out that both Sky and HBO preferred that Khan fight Prescott again, but instead Khan chose McCloskey. Now why would he do that? I can understand Khan avoiding a fight with Prescott immediately after being knocked out by him, but come on, it’s been three years now. What I Khan waiting for?

Khan said this about a rematch with Prescott in Rafael’s column today: “I’d love to fight Prescott again and its a fight the fans want to see as well. I promise you that fight will definitely happen. It’s unfinished business for me…The longer the fight waits the bigger the fight will be. That’s how I see it. As soon as I unify the division, the Prescott fight can happen.”

It’s doubtful that Khan is serious about fighting Prescott when/if Khan unifies the titles at light welterweight because he said earlier today that he plans on moving up immediately to 147 after unifying the titles and will go after Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Khan didn’t say anything about a fight against Prescott. I would venture to guess that Khan will have an excuse for not fighting him if he gets to that point, saying that he wants to take on the bigger fights and that he’ll get to Prescott after that. In other words, probably never.